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Animal Protection

Germany eases curbs on shooting wolves, in nod to farmers

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s cabinet agreed on Wednesday to loosen tight restrictions on shooting wolves to help tackle the growing threat they pose to livestock after a year-long row within Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition. Traditionally a symbol of cu…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Russian judge resigns over topless selfie ‘hacked from her mobile phone’

A Russian judge has been forced to resign over a topless picture of her, months after showing leniency towards two anti-Putin teenagers in a court case. Irina Devayeva has stood down after her mobile phone was seemingly hacked and the naked image stolen fr…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Hiroshima

Tu-95 Bear: Meet the Old Russian Bomber U.S. F-22s Just Intercepted Near Alaska

Its old, its obvious and it has mechanical problems facts hard to ignore while the Tu-95 plays a key role in a highly orchestrated and much exaggerated effort by the Kremlin to impress its foreign rivals. (This first appeared several years ago and is being r…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

VR

How to clean your Oculus Quest

When you game in VR, you're wearing your system right on your face. The Oculus Quest is no different, and that means that after a few hardcore sessions you might be wondering how to keep your headset and controllers clean. With a mixture of hard plastic, fabr…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Super Komachi

Hawaii baggage handler filmed dancing on tarmac while directing plane

The view out of the plane window before take-off isnt usually very exciting: probably other planes, baggage carts and the terminal building. But if youre flying in or out of Hawaii, you might find an airport worker with some killer dance moves. Luu Vailuu, …

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Chicken and Mushrooms Salad

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Macron says Britain must leave the EU with or without a deal on Halloween

Emmanuel Macron today insisted that Britain should leave the EU on October 31 with or without a deal to prevent them 'polluting' the bloc. The French President, who had fought for the UK to leave the bloc no later than June, says Brussels must not extend Art…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Hiroshima

Turkey to buy Russian S-400 missiles, undeterred by US sanction threat

Turkey is preparing for US sanctions after going ahead with the purchase of Russian military hardware, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said in a statement circulated Wednesday. The White House has threatened sanctions under the Countering America's Adve…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

The Ungrateful Refugee

I was born in 1979, a year of revolution, and grew up in wartime. The itch in my brain arrived as war was leaking into our everyday sirens, rations, adults huddled around radios. It announced itself one lazy afternoon in our house in Isfahan, between the yell…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Air Pollution

Research on children’s health risks in doubt over EPA funds

Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to their continued f…

bubmagMay 22, 2019

Germany eases curbs on shooting wolves, in nod to farmers

Russian judge resigns over topless selfie ‘hacked from her mobile phone’

Tu-95 Bear: Meet the Old Russian Bomber U.S. F-22s Just Intercepted Near Alaska

How to clean your Oculus Quest

Hawaii baggage handler filmed dancing on tarmac while directing plane

Chicken and Mushrooms Salad

Macron says Britain must leave the EU with or without a deal on Halloween

Turkey to buy Russian S-400 missiles, undeterred by US sanction threat

The Ungrateful Refugee

Research on children’s health risks in doubt over EPA funds

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